Several years ago I rsquo ll keep this vague I was at a meeting of a group of young Jesuits I rsquo ll keep that vague too who were called upon by their nbsp superiors again vague nbsp to do some important discernment nbsp The question that was put before us was What might be some new ven

Here is an important article to read H t to Dotcommonweal nbsp Karen J Terry the lead nbsp investigator for the John Jay College nbsp study on the Causes and Contexts of clerical sexual abuse in the church responds to critics who faulted the conclusions of the study and the methods used to

America s editors are always on the lookout for ways of alerting their readers to important developments regarding the environment nbsp So when our film critic John P McCarthy asked if we wanted a review nbsp of the new movie The Last Mountain we said yes immediately nbsp The film takes a har

I rsquo ve got a soft spot in my heart for women religious nbsp Maybe you do too nbsp It rsquo s not surprising nbsp I rsquo ve known so many who have been my teachers spiritual directors confidants role models nbsp and friends nbsp And of course so many of my saintly heroes hav

Aloysius Gonzaga needs rescuing from the hands of overly pious artists.

America reviewing Bridesmaids the hit summer chick flick as that genre has been termed nbsp Yes because Jake Martin SJ nbsp sees in nbsp the comedy nbsp surprising evidence of the value of community nbsp He doesn t see as much evidence in either The Hangover Part II or Something Bor

The story of the two 92-year-old twin Franciscan Brothers from St Bonaventure s in Olean New York who died on the same day has been all over the Internet nbsp But Dan Barry shows the difference between reporting a story and telling one nbsp In a nbsp beautiful article about two beautiful li

Who was the Little Flower nbsp And what nbsp does the life of a 19th-century French Carmelite nun cosseted by her parents raised on a diet of the overheated Catholic piety of the time and cloistered for the last few years of her short life have to say to you nbsp Here is a nbsp newly relea

From the Center for FaithJustice this thoughtful article by Kurt Denk S J a Jesuit priest and lawyer nbsp Fr Denk had for a time served as a chaplain at San Quentin Prison in California nbsp The summary of the article follows Jesuit priest and lawyer Kurt Denk asks us to consider what a ne

Blink a fun series of short videos on CatholicTV in Boston asked me to film a ten-part series called Ways of Prayer nbsp We move through nbsp An Overview of Prayer nbsp the Rosary Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Mass as Prayer Nature Prayer Centering Prayer Lectio Divina Ignat